contaminate, taint, pollute, defile mean to make impure or unclean. contaminate implies intrusion of or contact with dirt or foulness from an outside source. taint stresses the loss of purity or …

Some beaches are very polluted and it would not be reasonable for us to put the public at risk. Polluted rivers that run through highly populated regions eventually make their way into the seas.

Anything that's polluted is ruined and dirty — it's been contaminated by something dangerous or even deadly. It's not safe to eat fish caught in a polluted river. The adjective polluted is …

POLLUTED definition: made unclean or impure; contaminated; tainted. See examples of polluted used in a sentence.

polluted (pəˈluːtɪd) adj 1. made unclean or impure; contaminated 2. slang US intoxicated; drunk

to add dirty or harmful substances to land, air, water, etc. so that it is no longer pleasant or safe to use. pollute something by/with something The river has been polluted with toxic waste from …

If water, air, or land is polluted, it has been made dirty by poisonous substances. ...foul polluted water.